Progress toward a first observation of parity violation in chiral molecules by high-resolution laser spectroscopy
Atomic Physics
2011-04-07 v1 Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
Parity violation (PV) effects in chiral molecules have so far never been experimentally observed. To take this challenge up, a consortium of physicists, chemists, theoreticians and spectroscopists has been established and aims at measuring PV energy differences between two enantiomers by using high-resolution laser spectroscopy. In this article, we present our common strategy to reach this goal, the progress accomplished in the diverse areas, and point out directions for future PV observations. The work of Andr\'e Collet on bromochlorofluoromethane enantiomers, their synthesis and their chiral recognition by cryptophanes made feasible the first generation of experiments presented in this paper.
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@article{arxiv.1007.3352,
title = {Progress toward a first observation of parity violation in chiral molecules by high-resolution laser spectroscopy},
author = {Benoît Darquié and Clara Stoeffler and Alexander Shelkovnikov and Christophe Daussy and Anne Amy-Klein and Christian Chardonnet and Samia Zrig and Laure Guy and Jeanne Crassous and Pascale Soulard and Pierre Asselin and Therese R. Huet and Peter Schwerdtfeger and Radovan Bast and Trond Saue},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.3352},
year = {2011}
}
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30 pages, 11 figures